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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 28/09/2026

less of a newsletter this week - more some writing tidbits. here's one of them buttondown.com/seanmorl/arc...

a robot
In 2014 I was doing a comedy competition in a social club and the organiser started splitting the acts into two rows against two opposing walls. One wall was all the straight white men, and the others was for anyone else, anything a bit "unusual" like "gays" or "women". A middle aged hand ascended from the back ranks, "where should I go?"
"What are you?" the organiser asked.
"A robot", he said, pulling a big square head out of an IKEA bag.

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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"If someone has a new idea, we’ll even try it on the night. Ten or fifteen years ago, we would have been too nervous to do that" We speak with Paul Merton and improv partner Suki Webster ahead of a #Sheffield date on their upcoming tour. ✍️ @seanmorl.com

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Paul Merton & Suki Webster - "Nobody ever asked Morecambe & Wise about Vietnam": two UK comedy veterans on learning from Mike Myers and why there's no improv on TV

We chat with the acclaimed improv duo ahead of the Sheffield date of their new tour.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 23/09/2026

Is that a Glasdon Jubilee 110 litre bin? 😍

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Ben Swithen, a person @benjamilian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy sixtieth Star Trek! Here's a fan-episode I made in the TNG style around a decade ago with @seanmorl.com and @avaavavah.bsky.social - the intention was to be authentically earnest. youtu.be/6c5x1AfwXyc

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Star Trek: TNG | Adventure with Birthday Bread Man

YouTube video by Ben Swithen

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 09/09/2026

i love the whistleblowing structure at big AI companies, every month a panicked resignee breathlessly reports to every tech outlet "i am designing technology that will destroy humanity" and the CEO responds "i couldn't agree more - this is what ive been saying from the beginning".

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 09/09/2026

i not ashamed to say i enjoy andy barr's flash fiction. there's nothing shameful about it at all

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Yuri Gnu @yurignu.com · 08/09/2026

loving the new look

Link in the new Ocarina of Time remake and totally not Elizabeth Holmes looking completely normal on the new You Can See Everything documentary

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Nintendo Direct Guy’s two voices

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 21/08/2026

high alert late night nothing party The Glang Show will be appearing at this year's edinburgh fringe as a late notice end of festival problem buffet. please indulge 'An economic suicide note' (chortle) www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 13/08/2026

angeline era is so good

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 10/08/2026

diverting a motorway through a neolithic burial ground to avoid besmirching the filming location of 'mr bean and the beast of bodmin moor'

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 08/08/2026

If anyones up in ed and fancies a free ticket to my show drop me a dm. Ive got some code orange scrutinisers in today and would love to pack the place out with some wellwishers.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 07/08/2026

And while I'm up I'm doing one one-off show of my prototypical experimental gameshow Sean Morley's Normal Game on Saturday night at half midnight. Youve gotta select the ticket for 9th august tho because it counts as the next day. Thats just how dates work. Tix: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Sean morley's normal game
Multifaceted megaquiz

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 06/08/2026

I'm at the fringe all month with a funny comedy show about [????]. So if you're up in edinburgh or know someone who is then why not risk it all on a hectic hour. Details & tickets: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Liebenspiel presents
The future is here. Mouth wet - eyes hungry

Sean Morley
backchannel
7.50pm monkey barrel the studio
Aug 3 - 30 (not 12, 20)

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 06/08/2026

ill try to keep fringe stuff limited to the instagram showbiz sinkhole but im three days in and the shows going pretty well so far. people are writing some nice things.

Sean Morley: Backchannel - Fringe Review
Writer: Thomas Levi
Thomas Levi
1 day ago
2 min read

★★★★★

Sean Morley has built a reputation for pushing the boundaries of what stand-up can be, and Backchannel, playing at Monkey Barrel Comedy, feels like another leap forward: a show that interrogates the relationship between performer and audience while delivering some of the biggest laughs you'll hear in Edinburgh.

“Sean Morley: Backchannel” – Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Fringe ★★★★☆
“Excellent comedy that is bang up to date”

This is part of a series of shorter reviews from Edinburgh Fringe, August 2026.

Julie Tyler
(Audience member)
Outstanding! Very original and inventive, and deserving of a much bigger audience. Highly recommended, especially if you fancy a change from the standard stand-up format.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 04/08/2026

I'm at the fringe! First show of 27 done last night. Almost sold out but for one empty seat on the front row. After I finished I found the guy whose seat it was sat directly outside the door on the curb eating a 4-pack of cornettos. It's great to be back.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise.

But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 27/07/2026

this year i think people are finally going to realise what a major cultural schism the uk north-south divide is. for example, in the south people call late game elemental magic things like "firaga" but up here we just say "fire 3".

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 24/07/2026

you know in world war 1 when they had that kickabout at christmas? you've got to imagine someone was there suggesting they put a bomb in the ball. and just think how much sooner the war would have ended if they had.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ok, talking about class in vox pops is now banned until it starts making any sense.

MARK TAIT
Mark Tait, who lives near Durham, tells the BBC the bus fare cap will make little difference to him.
"This is great if you use the bus, but no good for those who drive. Yet again, the working class person is left out," Tait says.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 08/07/2026

On the 25th July I'll be performing at the Stanley Arts Work In Progress comedy weekend in South London alongside some of the great and good. It'll be my final preview before the Fringe. The last chance to take some wild swings. Full programme here: www.standupatstanley.com/who-is-on

Stanley at Stanley
A Work In Progress Comedy Festival Featuring:
31 Shows in 2 Days
Sam Campbell, Tim Key, Rose Matafeo, Nish Kumar, Daniel Kitson, Lou Sanders, Mark Thomas, Helen Bauer, Laura Smyth, Rob Auton, Elis James, Ayoade Bamgboye, Alison Spittle, Ed Night, Sean McLoughline, Celya AB, Elliot Steel, Will Adamsdale, Sean Morley, Rohan Sharma, John Tothill, Huge Davies, Cairan Dowd, Tom Neenan, Amy Annette, Alice Snedden, Ele McKenzie, Michael Odewale & Li Jin Hao, Tamsyn Kelly, Gavin Osborn and John Osborne

July 25 & 26

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pmcTRILOGY @pmctrilogy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

video games are so good

a phone photo of a hacked 3DS playing Final Fantasy Adventure, with the screen showing the text after fighting Mr. Lee where the player character receives the Magic Book of Sleep and learns Slep

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Matt @mattatat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

going door to door in the community to spread the great news that the giant international wooden block stacking world championship is, indeed, coming back to Sheffield in Sheffield. and it's going to be bigger and, hopefully, better #sheffield #comedy

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going door to door to spread the news of the blocks!

YouTube video by m tate

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 20/07/2026

Ok im going to become an rss guy again. Does anyone want to recommend me some feeds? This is rare opportunity to directly manipulate my interests and values.

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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The mad king has gone to ground and Andy Burnham's being low-speed railed in as prince regent to oversee the mouldering kingdom. We were so close to letting the Labour Party dissolve in its own acid. The people of Makerfield have a lot to answer for. ✍️ @seanmorl.com

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Who or what is Andy Burnham?

Politics expert Sean Morley delves into the folk story of Andy Burnham, a completely invented man that I didn’t even vote for.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

i love this website

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 17/07/2026

this is tomorrow! if you're thinking of coming snap a ticket up quick so you enjoy the email im sending out this afternoon about how the venue is hard to find.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 15/07/2026

Patlabor The Movie (1989)

The ceiling of a control room full of birds

Noa Izumi enters the control room full of birds. She says "Birds...?"

Noa Izumi turns to see a raven squawking at her. Her look of surprise is visible between the gaps in the raven's wing feathers.

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 15/07/2026

count binface drawing criticism over his clacton-on-sea bi-election victory speech in which he said his electoral campaign was won "without a single bullet being fired".

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 14/07/2026

ah yeah ok. the murderer could have been leftwing *or* they could have been an anarchist *or* they could have been interested in a single thing (unspecified)

Investigators are considering whether leftwing, anarchist and single-issue terrorism (LASIT) played a role in the suspect’s alleged motivation,

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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"My last show was a lot about mental health, being on antidepressants... I had routines that if I didn't have the ability to joke about would just be a bad anxiety in my life" @ericrushton96.bsky.social just finished an international comedy tour but still feels as nervous as ever. ✍️ @seanmorl.com

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Eric Rushton - "Journalists aren't interested in mental health anymore"

Eric Rushton has just finished an international comedy tour but still feels as nervous as ever. He and Sean Morley discuss stagefright, cynicism, suffering and the arrival fallacy.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 13/07/2026

Latest newsletter: The Meal That Makes You Cum Why did that woman in When Harry Met Sally believe there's a meal that makes you cum? Why did she order it? You wouldn't order it, would you? plus: fringe recommendations, upcoming shows we've hit 200 subs! thank you to all wellwishers

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The Meal That Makes You Cum

You know in When Harry Met Sally when Sally (I think that's her name) pretends to have an orgasm in a café (british english for diner) and a bystander (a...

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 11/07/2026

In May Leicester Comedy Festival's parent company announced payments to most of its artists would be delayed, but that "this is a case of a small delay rather than 'you won't be paid'". Their building's just been repossessed.

Arts venue repossessed due to 'financial struggles'
Street view of The Big Difference venue on Leicester's High Street.
Image caption,
The Big Difference arts venue opened in 2020

By Sonia Kataria
East Midlands
Published
2 hours ago
An arts venue, managed by the charity that runs the annual Leicester Comedy Festival, has been repossessed due to financial issues.

The Big Difference, on the High Street in Leicester city centre, opened its doors in 2020 aimed at showcasing new talent and local performers in music and comedy.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 10/07/2026

"Whoever the figure that gets hoisted to the top of the heap, their individual plans and desires will always be wrapped in a death shroud of institutional rot. To some degree, it doesn't matter what Andy's schemes entail – they still need to manoeuvre through a madcap panorama of haunted corridors."

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 08/07/2026

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 07/07/2026

Upcoming Comedy in #Sheffield Two Edinburgh Preview shows from Eric Rushton (Sean Lock Comedy Award winner) and Sean Morley (me, Sean Morley) at fruit and veg co-operative @regather.bsky.social on 18th July. Tickets: www.ticketsource.com/sean-morley/... @helpsheffield.co.uk

A splitscreen image of Eric Rushton (top left) and Sean Morley (bottom right)

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 07/07/2026

my nelson mandela effect is that there used to be a bit of red in the google drive logo

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 06/07/2026

Latest newsletter: make the moon great again mentions: ovals in bloodstream, gender affirming violence, disc rot, wasting the moon, edinburgh previews, discount codes, a brief description of an impossible and inadvisable show buttondown.com/seanmorl/arc...

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Pigeon's lover @rrrrroseazerty.loyaltyfreakmusic.com · 01/07/2026

I'm open for commissions ! If you want to hire me for your stuff needing music. I'm ok at doing my job 😌 Sharing is really appreciated 🌻

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 29/06/2026

what's going on here then

Hi Sean,

We’re reaching out to let you know that we have made the difficult decision to wind down Weebly services in your country due to changes in regulation and to simplify our global operations. Weebly will no longer be available for customers based in Vietnam after 09/20/1999.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 28/06/2026

The second of the Normal Game WIP shows comes to Manchester this afternoon. Meet me at Fairfield Social Club at 2pm if you want to get your mind blown open. www.seetickets.com/event/sean-m...

Big data meets big society meets big art.
A gameshow primed to pierce heaven
Sean Morley's Normal Game
multifaceted mega-quiz
www.seanmorl.com/normalgame

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merritt @merrittk.com · 20/06/2026

the life and death of GameFAQS

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 23/06/2026

This Sunday is your last chance to see Normal Game in its most feral and amorphous state. (and itll only be 22 degrees)

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

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